06/08/2016 Reporters - Short Edition

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In this week's programme, two years after so-called

Islamic State enslaved thousands of Yazidis in northern Iraq,

to the team trying to bring the perpetrators to justice.

The key for us is to establish the criminal responsibility not

of Daesh as a whole but individual leaders within Daesh.

We report on the latest human rights crackdown.

With the Olympics under way, we find out why a country the size

of India has such a dismal record at the games.

We have never won a medal for running but with God's grace,

Two years ago, so-called Islamic State launched an assault

Thousands of members of the ancient Yazidi

hundreds of women forced into sexual slavery.

The attacks spurred the international community

into military action against Islamic State,

Now the BBC has been given exclusive access to a group of lawyers

and investigators trying to bring the perpetrators to justice.

On the run, dehydrated, and terrified.

Hundreds of Yazidi families fled for their lives when

Islamic State militant attacked their villages.

Two years on, the women and girls captured on the ground

Where is my Yazidi girl, demands this Islamic State fighter.

They are discussing a modern slave market for sex with the girls,

Investigators are working to identify those responsible.

Here among these documents in a European capital we've been

asked not to name the evidence that war crimes investigators say

points to the culpability of senior Islamic State leaders

for the sexual slavery of possibly thousands of women in Iraq.

Bill Wylie is heading the investigation.

His team's research into war crimes by Islamic State is being funded

We have a lot of evidence that there was a policy,

an unwritten policy, that this was permissible.

The key for us is to establish the criminal responsibility not

of Daesh as a whole but individual leaders within Daesh.

Tracing the leadership's involvement in sexual slavery has identified

over 40 slave owners and 30 senior figures.

Beneath the leader of the Islamic State are those

believed responsible, like this former schoolteacher.

Still believed to be at large are the economic and finance emirs.

This investigator asked to remain anonymous for his own safety.

I asked him how optimistic he was that these men

Our focus is to ensure the failures of the past are not repeated.

It is for that reason that we think first and foremost we need to do

the job of evidence collecting while we can.

Justice for the Yazidi people may be years away.

There is no court to try their tormentors and some

Sooner or later, they say those who ordered the atrocity will be

To China, where last year, more than 300 lawyers were rounded

up in a major crackdown by the government.

On Tuesday, the first of a number of trials took place and those

in court were accused of subverting state power.

There is particular concern that lawyers are being targeted

in an attempt to discourage the political activities

China's human rights crackdown finally reached court with official

state media saying the trial would be open.

This man is a veteran human rights campaigner and one of around 20

activists and lawyers who has been detained since the sweeping

His campaign has already been aired on state TV and today

This woman is the wife of one of the human rights lawyers caught

Relatives of the other defendants have been prevented from attending

the trial and soon enough she too was sent away.

A few hours later the BBC caught up with her back in Beijing along

TRANSLATION: It was only after my husband was arrested that

They haven't let me see him since, so he may not even know he has

This week, just before the trials began, Wong Yu, another

prominent defence lawyer, was also paraded in front

The main thrust of China's case is that she and her colleagues have

used their human rights work to undermine the government,

but China's critics see an ulterior motive.

For many outside of service and of government, there is only one

conclusion to be drawn from what happened inside this

court, and that is that China is engaged in an effort to ratchet

up repression, to rein in dissent and to cement one-party rule.

Today, she was handed a suspended sentence.

Given that subversion carries a maximum of life in prison,

the relative leniency might be a sign that China is paying some

Now, the countdown to Rio 2016 is over, the Olympics are underway.

One country, though, that has never made much

But this year it has sent its largest ever team,

It is hoped they can help improve the country's terrible

Its best ever achievement came in London 2012 with six medals.

If you compare that with their population,

it is one medal for every 200 million people.

Justin Rowlatt has been examining why India is so bad at the Olympics.

And one of the country's best hopes for a medal in the most competitive

TRANSLATION: We have never won a medal for running

but with God's grace I will get to the finals and win one.

But you need more than just confidence to win an Olympic medal.

It is a type of superfast sledge but there are no tracks in India

so he has no choice but to train on the open road.

Like many Indian athletes, he says he just doesn't

I couldn't sustain my career, I couldn't go for training

or competition because I didn't have the money, so I started

And I actually went to 100 companies before one of them said yes.

Even India's Olympic movement admits the country hasn't always done

It says the country is poor and sport isn't at the top

Sport has always taken a back-seat vis-a-vis education.

Families tend to go for more education for their children,

you know, go to school, concentrate on education, not sport.

The basic feeling is that sport doesn't bring in the money

India is investing more, but even that may not be enough.

The caste system is also one of the reasons India

You must remember the lower castes constitute the bulk of India's

population and they are also the ones who don't have access

to education or good nutrition or health,

which has meant a large part of India's population hasn't been

able to take part in sports and hasn't had access

But credit companies are stepping in, supporting

The world's second most populous country will be hoping to bring

back its biggest ever medals haul as it sends its biggest

That is all from Reporters this week.

From me and the team in London, goodbye for now.

Good evening. For most of us, it was a lovely start of the weekend,

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